Oral Question·Department of Health and Social Care
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 14 October 2026Answered: 20 October 2026
Asked by
Jonathan Davies
Labour — Mid Derbyshire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Answer from Hansard
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)
Primary care providers have yearly negotiations with the Department on what services they provide and what money they are entitled to. More broadly, the reason why we are, in the Budget, taking difficult decisions about national insurance and other matters is precisely to fund the NHS, so that we have the health service that our country needs and deserves.